Iranian missile wounded at least 15 US troops, five seriously, & hit E-3 Sentry aircraft in Saudi Arabia

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Nury Vittachi 

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BREAKING NEWS

- An Iranian missile wounded at least 15 us troops, five seriously, in Saudi Arabia, it was confirmed today.

An E-3 Sentry, which is an American flying attack command center, was hit, the Wall St Journal reported this morning. The US had been using it to control multiple missiles and drones,

At least one more refuelling aircraft was also hit at the same location – adding to the five which were damaged or destroyed in an earlier successful missile attack.

Under UN rules, the Iranian attack is legal, as the Prince Sultan Airbase near Riyadh was used to launch the US-Israel unprovoked attack on their country.

US has destroyed only one third of Iran’s missiles, US intelligence said, contradicting claims by Trump that Iranian defences had been wiped out. This is despite the fact that the US has now made more than 11,000 airstrikes on Iran, according to US Centcom.

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ANSAH ALLAH JOINS DEFENCE

- Yemen’s Ansah Allah people, known in the west as the Houthi, have joined the defense of Iran. The group in the past few hours made two missile attacks on IDF military facilities.

Ansah Allah made headlines in July 2025 ago by using the OTHER Strait in the region, the Red Sea chokepoint. as a bargaining tool to stop rich western countries supplying the IDF attack on Gaza.

In that case, as in this case, friendly countries such as China were allowed to pass through the Strait, while ships allied to Israel and the US were prevented from transit.

This is Washington’s worst nightmare. Saudi Arabia has been diverting traffic to the Red Sea strait. If that path is blocked too – ouch.

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In related news, - Iran has made peace pacts with Thailand and Pakistan, also in the past few hours. They will join the Chinese as countries whose ships will be able to use the Strait of Hormuz with no problems.

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The Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS generally cost around $270 million per unit (based on 1998 dollars), with some estimates in 2026 placing the valuation of these critical, highly sophisticated, and heavily utilized support aircraft closer to $500 million when accounting for modern upgrades.

US$500 million gone down the drain